Wednesday 5 December 2012

Last Day For The Year


Hi everybody.

Today is the last day of Enrich for the year. Yay!!!! School Holidays. But Boo!!!!!! No more Enrich for 
                     SIX WEEKS.

The highlights for me this year were passion time because we have the chance to do what we are really passionate about and my other highlight for this year was before school picks because some of them were challenging and some of them weren’t. 

The minuses were must dos and picks because some of them were REALLY REALLY challenging.

The interesting bit of the year were when Darryn dissected an eyeball.



MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE


Bye  

Wednesday 28 November 2012

Pig eye dissection

Oink, Oink

Today I saw Darryn dissect a pigs eyeball. We had to name all the parts of the eye ball if we wanted our sheet signed off. He showed us all the parts of an eyeball. The parts of an eyeball are the lens, blind spot, cornea, pupil, iris, retina, tapetum, optic nerve, sclera, vitreus humour and aqueous humour.
Every time Darryn cut the eyeball we got to hold it. The eyeball was very tough to cut. even with a razor blade it was still very tough.

Wednesday 21 November 2012

Typing test

Today at Enrich after lunch we all did a typing test. A typing test is when you put your hands on A, S, D and F. You put your left pinky on  A and you put your left ring finger on S and you put your index finger on D. Last of all you put your pointy finger on F.
It will look a little bit like this.  Below is one of the typing exercises I had to do - it was easy!!


Wednesday 24 October 2012

Making quick sand

Today at Enrich for passion time Sarah, Jemma and I made Quick Sand.


You need:
One cup of maize cornflour
Half a cup of water and some yellow food colouring.
Once you have done that you stir it.It might not look like sand but it is.You can tell when its ready because if you mix it slow it will fell watery and when you mix it fast it will be hard to mix.


Quick Sand....

AIM:(What you are wanting to find out)
We wanted to find out if it actually makes sand.

HYPOTHESIS: (What you think will happen)I think the quick sand will turn into sand once we have finished making the quick sand. 

METHOD: (the steps you take to do the experiment - Instructions)
Put one cup of maize corn flour in a bowl and then you put half a cup of water in and then some yellow food colouring. Mix all the ingredients together and then when you mix it slowly it should feel watery. 

RESULTS: (what happened)
When we mixed it slowly it did feel watery and when we mixed it fast it felt tough. 

CONCLUSION:(why you think this happened the reason for the outcome)
The cornflour was at the bottom so when we mixed it fast it got a little bit of cornflour and it was tough to mix. 


Wednesday 17 October 2012

Technology Challenge

Kia Ora everyone!


Today at Enrich we all did a technology challenge. It was really fun. We had to use some newspaper, paperclips, sellotape and string to make a contraption to get a hammer and a cold chisel. We were in groups of three. I was in a group  with Tara and Emily. The challenge was based on Maguyver. One person had to be Maguyver  and their feet couldn't move no matter what. All of the groups failed. I think Luke's group was the closest.



  

Thursday 27 September 2012

Wednesday 12 September 2012

The morning of my day at Enrich.

Today at Enrich we started with a game of chess. I played Claire first and I won. Then I played Anna and then I just moved down when I moved up! Next we continued with our environment projects. In my project I was writing an article about the how Enrich is helping out at Seaward Bush, so I finished that then time was over.So it was morning tea time. After morning tea it was time for the class to watch an air pollution video and when we were finished watching it we got to get our workbooks and a pen and write down two facts about the video and a wondering.
Then we got into groups of three and did the same thing.I am wondering why people are polluting so much and how they get away with it??

Wednesday 5 September 2012

Wednesday 29 August 2012

Today at Enrich

Kia Ora everybody.

Today at Enrich we started with a game of chess and I lost. Next we did some of our environment projects. Me, Jemma, Claire and Travis are making a website about Seaward Bush. I was searching up photos and info about Seaward Bush. We played a Wilson game called bulls eye. You have five hoops and five beanbags you have to get one beanbag in each hoop and when a team has got all hoops full the game's over.

Wednesday 22 August 2012

Another day at Enrich

Today at Enrich I started with a game of chess against Pippa.  I was 6th on the leaderboard, but then Pippa bet me, so I moved to 7th place.  After that, there were 5 people waiting to play me.  I played Joey and lost!  I am now 10th on the leaderboard.  For my environment project, I continued working with Travis, Jemma and Claire.  We were gathering information for our website about the environment at Seaward Bush.  We haven't quite finished gathering our information because we are still planning out our website.  After morning tea, we played a Wilson game - we played Pegasaurus.  Then we went and did P4C with Alana.  Our topic today was all about pride and making compromises.  This was based around the story "The Zax" by Dr Seuss.  Then I went to debating with Katie.  Our topic was "Getting rid of all the cats on the Stewart Island will help increase the number of native birds on the island.  I was on the affirmative team.  I said that it would be easier to catch the cats and remove them, rather than trying to catch the birds and move them to safety.  This afternoon, we are doing new high interest stations.  I am going to go to Science with Katie.  We are doing physics today.

Wednesday 8 August 2012

Number Art



Today with Katie we did number Art.  I have done 5 0 the dog, he is really fat and short.  We drew a 5 first and then we put a 0 on the tip of the 5 on the right.  Then we put a little black dot on the corner of the 5. Then we put the body on the dog.

Wednesday 1 August 2012

Another day at Enrich

Kia ora everyone,

Today I was doing my painting with Katie my teacher.


We are doing impressionest painting like Claude Monet.


We are doing a special technique called tache.  That is French for "touch".  You touch the paper, rather than doing big strokes.




Here is a photo of Katie's. 








Wednesday 18 July 2012

First day back at Enrich

Hi - it's me again.


Today it was the first day back at Enrich. It was a busy day back at Enrich.

We played the hoop game.

The hoop game is where you get into a group of three and the someone says jump and then they clap and you all have to jump and land at the same time as everyone else with your feet together.



My group didn't win.


I did art this morning.  We looked at impressionism as a style of painting.  We tried painting some water lilies.  We looked at Claude Monet - he was a famous impressionist artist.  You need to use little blobs of paint to make it look blurry.


  

Wednesday 27 June 2012

Refection

Hello it's me again. Today we did our reflections for the end of the term. They are called sentence starters. There are ten of them. We have done these reflections to think back on all of our learning that we have been doing for this term at Enrich. We all came down to the mat and we went through them together.


I have put my reflection down here for you  to have a look at it.

Wednesday 13 June 2012

My Canstruction

Hello. I have been doing a lot of canstruction at enrich over the two terms. Canstruction is when you build things out of cans. It is really fun and awesome. We have been planning a despicable me minion.  We are going to need 381 cans for the despicable me minion.

Wednesday 6 June 2012

Today at enrich

Hello. Today I finished my tapa cloth. A tapa cloth is a type of pacific cloth and we have to draw a bird footprint for the main design and put them in a pattern so it should look like a chess board but with a bird foot print for the black. You need to use a certain type of brown paper and pick other patterns to go on the rest of the squares. 

Wednesday 29 February 2012

Blogging

Today we learnt how to blog.  I have learnt how to sign in to my blog and how to post on it.  


This morning we did drama with Darryn.  I liked it when we watched a video clip of "Who's line is it anyway?".  


I have started learning Spanish in the afternoons at Enrich.  I know that Hola! is Hello!